Management Manager

Toby S. Vitek, Ph.D.

**** **** *** ***, *** Hill, NC 27562 919-***-**** *******@*****.***

Profile

Talented organizational psychologist with extensive breadth and depth of

expertise in talent management processes, organizational development, and

leadership assessment and development. Systemic thinker with who is adept

at applying research and best practices to real-world situations to develop

pragmatic, effective, and integrated solutions aligned to mission and

business strategies. Proven ability to build strong working relationships

and work collaboratively with colleagues at all levels and across

boundaries to achieve goals.

Areas of expertise

. Advising on, developing, and implementing talent management structural

solutions, including: leadership and functional competency models, HRIS

technology integration, and talent management systems alignment.

. Advising on, designing, and implementing selection, development,

succession planning, and performance management solutions aligned to

mission, business strategies, and future direction of organization.

. Project management, including: defining scopes and timelines for work,

securing resources, leading cross-functional project teams, and managing

budgets, deadlines, and communications.

. Conducting assessments of leaders to determine performance, potential,

readiness, and/or fit and making recommendations for selection,

promotion, development, and succession, including: interviewing

participants, interpreting test results, identifying key strengths and

development needs, preparing written reports for participants and key

stakeholders, and providing feedback.

. Consulting on talent management strategies, including: determining talent

management priorities, aligning talent strategies to business needs,

evaluating effectiveness of strategies, enhancing succession planning

initiatives, developing and conducting human capital analytics, and

developing competency strategies.

. Managing global product/service rollouts including: collaborating with

clients and subject matter experts to understand stakeholder needs,

developing and deploying offerings, preparing change management tactics,

advising on branding, crafting internal communications, and conducting

training.

. Designing, implementing, and delivering leadership development solutions,

including: critical talent pool identification, assessments, feedback,

development planning, coaching, curriculum design, program delivery,

action learning initiatives, and program evaluation.

. Applying adult learning and motivation research to identify the

appropriate leadership development solution for the situation to produce

ROI in terms of real behavior change that "sticks" for individuals and

measurable returns for the organization.

. Research and survey methodology, including survey and research design,

item writing, scale construction and validation, sampling methodology,

data collection and analysis, report writing, and presenting technical

data to a wide range of audiences.

. Strong writing, presenting, and influencing skills. Adept at identifying

and balancing stakeholder needs to gain support for ideas, and creating a

clear line-of-sight between business challenges and proposed solutions.

. Experience working with Global Fortune 1000 companies, federal agencies,

the military, and privately held companies. Industry expertise includes:

consumer products, retail, banking/financial services, healthcare,

hospitality, insurance, manufacturing, energy/utilities, chemical,

pharmaceuticals, and technology.

Professional Experience

Talentworks Solutions, 2009 - present

Independent consulting practice. Provide clients with advice and solutions

in the areas of talent strategy, succession management, competency

modeling, leadership and organizational development, and talent management

systems architecture.

Personnel Decisions International, 1993 - 2002, 2004 - 2009, 2010 - present

Roles Held: Senior Consultant; Product Development Manager, Global

Consulting Products; Director, Eastern Region, Global Consulting Products;

Consultant; Associate Consultant

Consult with clients and deliver solutions to drive talent management

initiatives and organization change. Select accomplishments:

* Won back Fortune 50 client that had previously fired PDI. Earned trust

through collaborative, transparent consulting style, commitment to

excellence, resourcefulness, and top-notch delivery. Worked directly with

head of HR, CEO, Board, on design, delivery, and management of CEO

succession planning initiative. Served as coach to C-suite and high-

potential leaders. Became trusted advisor to top leaders, the company's

vendor of choice for all talent-management initiatives, and doubled year-

over-year revenues.

* Advised client on large-scale change initiative to align organization

with change in business strategic direction. Identified implications of

change on relevant systems, processes, and structures, including new

leadership requirements and capability gaps, cultural enablers, and

barriers. Presented findings and recommendations to senior leaders. Led

the development and deployment of leadership development efforts to drive

change.

* Conducted in-depth talent management systems audit and benchmarking

across all subsidiaries of a privately held company. Presented findings

and made recommendations to Board, CEO, and company presidents that

resulted in being asked to lead major process improvement and integration

initiative across all talent management systems.

* Recognized as one of firm's top experts in competency modeling, multi-

rater feedback, HR technology integration, and design of custom

assessment solutions.

* Consistently achieved growth in year-over-year client revenues; strong

track record of client retention and referrals.

* As an executive coach, earned track record for turning around derailing

top leaders and at-risk high-potentials who subsequently went on to be

highly successful; often sought out by colleagues to work with their most

challenging coaching clients.

* Frequently sought out by sales team to lead complex, large scale, multi-

solution engagements due to strong project management skills, big-picture

approach, and client focus.

* Serve as mentor to consulting and sales staff across the firm; was

frequently sought out as internal coach by team members.

* As office and regional leader for assessment and multirater practice

areas, managed all aspects of the business for that market, including

quality assurance, training, goal setting, and business development. Grew

the business in each of these areas by over 50% each year.

* Developed critical intellectual property for company-wide use, including

assessment reports, white papers, and competency content databases.

Designed custom assessment protocols and reports for clients.

* Developed new instrument for measuring outcomes of development

initiatives at the individual and organizational level, which became

significant tool for measuring ROI and strong revenue producer for firm.

Personnel Design Systems (Bingham Farms, MI), 1992 - 1993

HR Strategies (Gross Pointe, MI), 1990

Consultant

Conducted job analyses and validation studies, developed selection tests

and selection processes for clients.

Wayne State University (Detroit MI), 1989 - 1992

Instructor

Taught 5 undergraduate psychology courses.

Kelly Services (Troy, MI), 1984 - 1989

Manager, Technical Research & Development; Methods Analyst

Promoted to lead improvement of job descriptions and selection tests used

to hire employees for temporary work. Managed staff of 6 psychologists.

Select accomplishments:

* Identified need and wrote business case, resulting in the creation of the

department.

* Conducted first-ever job analysis for temporary employees, achieving more

than 85% response rate. Used results to validate job descriptions and

selection tests.

* Led project team to create and deploy new job descriptions for company's

core business line (temporary employees). Collaborated closely with CEO

and executive team to develop new job classification structure and

descriptions aligned with strategic goals of company.

* Initiated and led validity studies for entire battery of tests used to

select temporary clerical, and light industrial workers. Developed new

tests and revised existing tests to meet business needs.

Consulting Psychologists Press (Palo Alto, CA), 1981 - 1983

Accounting Supervisor

Managed accounts receivable, credit, and collection functions for test

publishing company.

Education

Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Wayne State University,

Detroit, MI

. Winner of Jepson Dissertation Award, Jepson School of Leadership,

University of Richmond

M.A., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Wayne State University,

Detroit, MI

B.B.A., Management, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

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